Resilient wheel.



Patented Oct. 8, 1912.

Witnesses:

1061/57 SEIBERI:

AUGUST SEIBERT, F HARVEY, ILLINOIS.

. BESILIENT WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1912.

Application filed September 9, 1911. Serial NIL-648,455.

I .do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accompanylng sheet of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which said invention appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has general reference to resilient wheels; and it consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar combination of arts and details of construction, as hereinafter first fully set forth and described, and then pointed out in the claim.

The object of this invention is to provide for an improved construction of a cushiontired wheel whereby the wheel is made resilient, the construction being applicable to existing wooden wheels as well as other vehicle wheels.

In the drawings already referred to, which serve to illustrate this invent-ion more fully, Figure 1 is a sectional view of this resilient wheel on line g y of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line a2a; of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan of a fragment of the spring employed in this wheel. Fig. 4 is an elevation of portions of the wheel, partly in section, the sectional portion being on line z2 of Fig. 2.

Like characters and symbols of reference denote the, same parts in all the figures.

This wheel, as such, comprises the usual hub A, spokes B, and felly C, a wheel which is in almost universal use on automobiles and other vehicles. In the periphery of this felly, at the margins thereof, there are provided grooves 12, and in these grooves there are located the flanges 13, formed on two annular side plates D, D',,which side plates are permanently secured to the flanks of the felly 0, preferably by screws 14, or similarly effective means. These side plates have olfsets or shoulders 15; and they are constructed to afford an annular groove within which the cushion tire E is located. This cushion tireis forced into an annular band 16,'whi.ch band is nearly as wide as the folly, and it occupies an annular space 17 between the'felly and the side plates D, D, and bearing normally against the shoulders 15 on said side plates. This band has projecting from its outer periphery spuds or spurs 18, which are embedded in the inner perimeter of the tire and prevent the latter from creeping on the former, but cause the band to rotate with the tire should the same creep, as it naturally will, in the groove between the said side plates.

The band 16 is preferably formed of a hardened quality of steel possessing a certain degree of elasticity to enable it to resume its original normal rotundity after having been deflected therefrom, said band forming, in addition to its function of a reinforce for thetire, a track for a double series of antifriction balls 19, as will hereinafter more fully appear. 7

In theannular space 17, there is located a helical spring F, having a number of convolutions, like a clock-spring, a portion "of which is illustrated in Fig. 3. In this spring there are near its margins a double series of perforations 20, constructed toreceivc, and serve as retainers for, said antitriction balls 19, there being in this spring two sections of these perforations and two sections in which there are no perforations. This spring in its relaxed condition is larger in diameter than the inner diameter of the band 16, so that the spring is in tension when contracted and inserted in said band, the balls in the outer row bearing against the inner surface of the band 16, and againstthe non-perforated section 21, of the second convolution of said spring, while the second row of balls bear against the non-perforated section first mentioned, and the next succeeding non-perforated convolutions.

In operation the weight of the vehicle and its load rests upon, or is carried by, the

wheels thereby causing the wheels to be cushioned-tire Wheels the fixed rim that holds the tire will be removed therefrom and then the wheel turned in a lathe to produce therein the two marginal grooves 12 to receive the flanges 13 of the side plates,

whereby these side plates are correctly centhe balls 19 .sary or desirable. 1o,

is provided with a double series of perforaowing to 1ts low specific gravity and its non-'" corrosive qualities but I desire it to be under stood that, I do notwish to confine myself to this specific constru tion, andthat'I may! vary the same should l find a change neces I'have heretofore stated that the spring ,F

tions to receive antifriction balls, said perforations being located near the longitudinal mar s of the spring. But since there is a possibility of the balls atone end of'the spring, when the'lat-ter is contracting, reaching the nearest adjacent balls, in the convolutions off the balls indicated by 19., 'n Fig. 1, reac' ingthe balls"19", which it could not pass, .1 arrange. these perforations in such manner that the balls 19, 19 to 19f, approximately, are on ithouter set. of perforations 20, while to 19 are inthe inner series of perforations, 20, as shown in Fig. 3, it being evident that the first series of perforations may be near the outer. margins of the spring F, and the second series nearerto the longitudinal center line thereof, (or;,v ic'e versa) as long as the balls are so arranged that they pass (i'n'e another when required.

of casting,

spring, as for instance the a spring affording means.

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Having thus fully described this invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure to me by Letters Patent of the United States- In a resilient wheel, means for resisting the movement of the tire, comprising, in combination a resilient endless band constructed to bear against the inner surface of said tire, a helical spring surroundedby said endless band, said helical spring having coils of decreasing diameter 'asxthey approach the center of said wheel, there being in said helical spring convolutions having a margins series of perforationsclose to the of said spring, and further series of perforations closer together thanthe series at the margins, and convolutions that are nonperforated, the forated convolutions alternating, and antifriction means located in, said perforations,

and retained by, the inner surface of said perforated and the non-perl resilient band and both sides of the nonperforated 'convolutions of said helical tracks for the antifriction lIn testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have hereunto set my hand in. the presence of'tWo subscribing Witnesses AUGUST SEIBERT. Witnesses GEORGE W. HowAnn, G. B. CLAWsnN.

the Commissioner of Patents, 

